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ATHENS, GEO. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1835.
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NO. 20.
lie Southern Banner,;
13 ri'BUSHKD IN THE TOWN OF ATHENS. GEORGIA,
EVERT THURSDAY,
by albox chase.
'TERIIS- Three dollars per year, payable in • ad.
re or Four dollws if delayed to the end of the
f The latter amount will be rigidly exacted of
ho Tail to meet their payments within Use year.
Yrvertbkmsnts will bo inserted at the usual rates.
' should always have the desired number of in.
!(>. , .narked upon them when handed in, other-
p they will ho published till forbid, and charged
icoli'inulv. ,
. ^ inters to tho Editors on matters connected
h the establishment, must be pool paid in order to
-iro sttenlien.
'(■N’otiec of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad-
iitritor*. Executors, or Guardians, must be pub
pj tiny* previous to tho day of sale.
l0 su j 0 of I’ersonai Property, in like manner.
(l0 pjhlish.il forty days previous to the day of sale
Notice to debtors anil creditors of on estate, must be
Wished forty days.
Notice that Application will bo mode to the Court
[ordinary, for U»ave to soil Land or Negroes, must
iblished four months.
..lice that Application will ho made for letters ot
iiiimtration, must bo published thirty days, and
liters of Dismission, six months.
©fie iFauucr.
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Dlt. G. W.JUSON,
SURGEON MENTIS T,
ATHENS.
.. 23—15—tf.
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IRE-HOUSE
AND
ouimission Business,
hni: uii lersigned will continue to transact the
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BU.
LVES.V in this city. . • .
They are gi iteful for tlie patronage received during
l.. session.
L</ businrss tnnfiied to thrir tharce will mett
h prompt attrntion. Their Warn.IIouRC and close
es, for security against Jire, are not surpassed by
similar establishment in the place.
MVSGROYE $ BUSTIN.
Inly 10—17—2m. ' “
WARE-HOUSE
A N D
Commission Business.
till', undersigned informs his friends and- the
public gcucr.tUy, that he has taken that large
lioraiiiuiii.His FIRE-PROOF WARE.IIOUSE, in
[city of Augusta, situated in the upper part and
I lie west side of Droid street, known heretofore
Iconibe. Johnson & Caulfield's, anil recently
|I1 i.oii &. Randle’s, ami tenders his services as
era!
tyfor and Commission mer
chant. y '
the Ware-House and Close Stores are Viow roadyi
i good order for tho reception, of Produce and
i m store. Ilis charges will be customary ; and
: the strict and porsomil attention which he de.
. giving to the interest of his friends, flatters him.
Itvitli a liberal share of public patronage.
lr. John Rees, who has been engaged in the
| .House Business for many years—his services
:id tvill be exclusively devoted to said business.
EGBERT B. BEALL,
Formerly of Monro*, Walton County, Ga. *
Lugusix, June 16—14—13t. • -
To the Editors of the Banner :
Gentlemen—Two years ago l began an ex-
periment in the culture of Gama'jGIrass. The
result is a thorough conviction'that our far
mers should lose no time ih commencing the
culture of it.
I have ns yet but a small part of my lot set
with it. In its growth and product it has ex.
ceeded all my expectations. By calculation
from what my plants have done, an acre well
set with routs, at two years old, if cat Jive
limes a year, will yield 24$,000 pounds of
green grass.
In curing, the loss is with me, in proportion,
of about 17 to 5, taking out the seed-stems.
Those who plant the seed will be certain
to be disappointed the first year. Let'them
persevere, and the second or third” year will,
banish all their disappointment. To procure
a good set at once, it is best to get the roots.
I desire that you will, if convenient, repub.
ltsh the enclosed articles for the information of
our neighbors. ^ „
* Very respectfully,
*;• jamescamak.
Athens, Sept. 8th, 1835. - *
P. S. The Baltimore “ Funner &' Gard.
nor” calls this grass * “'Vegetable Wonder,”
and speaks of the author ef.the.fi tst two ar
ticles below in the following terms :
“Than our correspondent Agricoin, few men
have written more, or with happier effect,
upon the various subjects connected with hus
bandry, and it Is but sheer'juslice to say that
there are few to whom the agricultural inter,
csts are so much indebted as to him."‘Prac
tically eqgaged,in the business, ardently de
voted to the pursuit by interest-and feeling,
bringing to his eid a mind richly imbued with
all the elements necessary to an accomplish
ed farmer, and being full of enterprise, his
experiments are happy iHustrafions of the ad-
vantages to. be derived from an intelligent .and
judicious combination of science, with the
physical department of husbandry.”
Ware-House
AND . - v ■
hr mission Business,
A VCrUS I'll, s
rOVALL & SIMMONS having taken into parf-
I nership M, P. STOVALL, the above business
ituro will be conducted at their okl stand, un
' firm of
roVALl,SIMHOXS,' & CO.
the patrons of tho old firm, they tender their
fro acknowledgements for their liberal support.
I from them and the public they respectfully soli,
i contimianco thereof, -which thoy trust they will
[it from renewed exertions for their interest. -
pair \VA KE-HOUS ES and CIAJSE STORES,arc
FIRE-PROOF,
Ircaiently arranged and favorably situated for tho
V ind site of Cotton, and receiving and-lor.
►tug of goods. . y
Juno 24.—16—3m.
MIE
WARE-HOUSE
ml Coinmiseiiou Biisiuoi*.
Subscriber having taken the extensive FIRE
PROOF WARE-HOtXSE, on Iftclnlosh street,
a licretofore as Maj. F. C. Heard’s, takes this
rtm.ity to return his thanks for tho liberal pat-
S® extended to him. He solicits a continuance
business of bis forincr.custonji-rs. and those of
*• occupants of this Ware-Uousc. lie is pxje-
to offer liberal CASH ADVANCES on produce.
**; and his best oxortibns for iho interest of
*ho may favor him with their •business.
ROBERT MALONE.
>2<atn, July 28,1835. - .
iTh? undoreigned having retired from the Ware-
* Commission Business, in this City, takes
isure in roootmnehdin'g to his former hostomers
'nornl*, Robert Mskme, Esq. (well known as a
for »ndCommission Merchant,) who has taken
Ipicmise* the undersigned occupied for a number
| Mr? ’ ai >d solicits for Mr. Malone, a continuance
e Tory liberal patronage which has been extend.
,hra »- F.-C. HEARD.
.July 25.—.20—9t.
frusta,
BENJ. BAIRD,
AKES thig method of-inforining hie friends and
the public generally, that be continues- the
WARE-HOUSE
' ’ . ANQ-
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
^°Rasta, and has taken the Fire Proof .Ware-
on tho corner of Campbell and Reyn bid. streets,
Jy occupied hy Mcsars^Rlaiighter &. Labuae*,
cently by R. Malone, Eyq. Advances wdl be
u isqaired, on Cotton in Store, arid ordors for
' ittended to with particular caro and attention,
or charges those that are' customary—except
! / chw >tr * ^ otton fe insured against Firs,
1^*, July 24.-50^91.
DEERS,
*?****> a «4 Morgues,vMOy printed
™ tnf r strong paper, for sate here.
. From the Farmer and Gardner.
Gama Grass.—Thjs'gruss should .be plant-
cd on light soilj well manured agreeably to the
manner adopted by me for the purpose of as-
certaining the mode of cpUivatio.n most favor-
able to a heavy product. I am assured in
this climate, that, planted at eighteen inches
from plant to plant, arid cut at fifteen days
growth, beginning the first day of May, when it
is found from throe to three and a half feet
high, and-ending the last of October, it will
be found to yield 300.000 lbs. of green grass
per aere. If cut on the first, day of May, and
rogularly on the first of every month till No
vember, the product will be something Ies9.
For the manner of planting alluded to, see
‘Farmer &*Gardner, of Jan. 6, 1835*—only
instead of 2 feet from plant to plant, I now
find 18 inches* a better distance—the above
product after tire 3d year. The Gama Grass
obtains its full growth in about 30 days—
when t cut for hay. Cut at' 15 days it Will
be found 'here from 14 to 18 inched—but nt'
this siage 1 must contend, it isonc of the most
delicate and tendergrasseslo hefound, capableof
producing the finest milk and butter—-at this
stage,, the apparent gratification with which
the cow consumes it, cannot be exceeded. “T
would cut at this stage, only lor a milch coin,
orfina calf—for the horse, mule, or ox, at 30
days—at either staged it is without:succulence.
It is called by the Spanish people, in SoutH
America! a dry grass, to designate its freedom
from sitcculetice.
At each Cutting, I loosen'the ground amongs .
the roots, if they have not locked and taken
possession of the whole ground, with.a' har
row hoc. In this way, 1 keep the ground
clean ulso—at eighteen incites the roots will
tako the whole ground in 4 years. I have
been cultivating a plat of Gama 12 years, the
first roots cultivated east, of the Mississip
pi—this plat i§ more luxuriant, and a more vig
orous plunt this year, than'any year previous*
1 know n plat of about one acre, in iis
live state,, found at full maturity,'by .the indi
vidual who owns tire land, 19^’ears ago.—
Discovering his animals .extremely fond of it,
he began on the first ffiscovery, to make hay,
(or winter provision, and has kept it (hr thai
purpose, (a nalural meadow) ever since,-and
it has improve#. Its luxuriance cannot be ex-,
celled.
Tire S. American Spaniards have n proverb,
that the' age of a man, » mule, and Gama
grass, is the same. There is a lot of Gama,
grass of very superior quality, on the Pear?
river, known to be of forty years standing.—
After the root9 lock and take, up the surface
of theefirth, thpv project annually dowAwar#s,~
to on incredible depth. „
1 sprinkle every spring* some manure, Cot.
ton feed, rotlen, or ^shgs, over the ourfiree af
ter the first cutting, (May the 1st). It is lien-
ofilted try manure, as isOelt-as other of the
grosses—although in its native state, it exhib
its, in some spots'eqnal, if not greater htxtirri-
ance, than when cultivated;'”- fn the lands
lately acquired from the Ch6cktaws,it abounds
in rich limestone foil- .. - ‘ ' ■> • f
The Gama gross is cul by me, and stacked
the same day, sprinklSngsalt with it, as stacked.
Orie day’s sun without salt is sufficient; it is
the most readily cured of any grass I know of,
for the reason already stated, viz, being xe-
maTkafily without succulence. * *
1 have'tried every plan (hotbacbeen sug
gested to cure this 'grass, finding it* such an
admtrhble resource for winter provision, and
prefer to take what 1 cut before 12 o’clock,
and stack in -thin layers, alternately, with,
sweet, well saved rye, oats, wheat, rice, or
barley straw—putting on each layer of grass,
a spriukling of salt,4hen straw, grass, salt,dec.
There is no necessity for separating flip
seed, from its covering—put into sand, or dry
earth, on being gathered and dried, it will, if
planted early in the springsay iu the month
of March, vegetate in a few days.
The best method*of saving the seed, that I.
have found out, Is to'go regularly into the lot
ofgftissj'as the‘sCed is ripeuing, and by sim
ply touching the ripe seed, at the end of tile
ear, they will Tall iuto.the hand; sometimes
two will be fouud ready to fall off.
'Your eighth query Will be found fully an-
swered iif the Farmer of Jan. 6, 1835, No.
36, ypl. l.,f as to soil—preparation, for plan,
ling. &c. . * ' v
To the 9th qpery, as to the method of culti
vation, see the above—this method from its
result lust year and the present, t must rest
satisfied with.
It is one of the hardiest plants, I believe
on earth, the roots passing fur below the pos
sibility of frost, and fully preserved by the
mean temperature of the earth. During the
lust 4 years .this Secfion of the union has been
visited with the mesffatal frosts to vegetation ev
er known hy its oldest inhabitants—I cannot
learn thut this grass was ever hurt, in a single
Instance—I have been particular in my oh.
servation on that point. As regards the im
poverishing or improving quality of it, I am
decidedly ol thebpiuion of Mr. Philips of Geor
gia as mentioned in' a communication of Mr.
Delony, in the Farmer, No. 45, Feb. 24,
I835.J i be^ leave to. point Mr. Robinson
to this communication.
The Gaina is singularly calculated for soil?
ing—il'being cut with so much ease by the
sickle or scythe—the time'it rcqujres to ma
ture, ,&c. .ill suggest tliis. At otic month's
growth, 1 can cut in two minutes, more than
an animal can eat in a day.
Where the accumulation of mahure is a part
of the agricultural, system, 1 know.'nothing
that comes in more happily for the use of the
Farmer. Wiili a judiciously constructed dung-
stead or place for accumulating manure, and
moveable Yacks, it is iucredible with what ease
and expedition- a Iargfe stock: could be fed
with gross, I find no difficulty in cutting it with
the 1 scythe. For its claim as to being nutri
tive, 1 refer to Mr. -Phillips’ opinion before
mentioned—which, however, in the province
of;8. America, is proverbial. The loss iu
vyeight when cured into hay, depends much on
the mod* adopted—I have cured it with the
loss of less than one half,. I have found that
ashes and rotten cotton seed, stacked, and well
During the year it grew well—the following
year it “ shot ahead,” and this season it is “ out
of sight,” of any I have been able to raise, or
have seen raised by the mahy, gentlemen to
whom I distributed seed. Every cutting since
the first of May, (and that one averaged three
feer,) has exceeded forty .five iaches in leugth.
It was prevented from seediug, for the purpose
of ascertaining the production. After the
cutting in M&y, rotten cottou seed was strewed
over the ground—and which* was worked in
amongst the roofs, when the ground received
a loosening, amongst the plants, after the'first
cutting. The season has been highly favor
able. The cutting took place on the first
day of each month, commencing with May—
and five Cuttings have been mode—the grass
fed away green to working oxen, horses and
mules—cut up in a patent cutting box, and al
mixed with about one fourth of oat straw, (not
thrashed) a sprinkling of meal was added,
say one pint tin cup full to each animal twice
per day. At 'each cutting, a number of the
smallest bupches were weighed, and also of
the largest. None fbuqd less than 5 pounds,
and many 15, and some 16 and 17. A fair
average, I ant satisfied, would be, eight pounds
per plant at each cutting—and -seven cuttings
in the spason—In the mode of planting to
which the extraordinary luxuriance wus owing,
I was governed l>y a knowledge of the singu
lar depth to which this plant extends.its roots
into tire earth.
Believing that a deep ^soil by nature, or
made so by art, was alone calculated to show
the best production of. this plant, 1 have been
anxious to see the result, under favorable sea
sons, and coufoss myself now satisfied.
From each cutting, 1 made a small stack of
hay, cutting after the dew was offhand mixing
alternate thin layers of grass, and oats straw,
with a sprinkling of ground alum sail, on reach
layer of gross, h curod well. .
A few handfuls of each cutting were cqr-
ed alone, iu the sun—that. cut in May, gave
fourteen pounds of grass—six pounds of bay
—each cuttiug gaming ia result.
. * AGRICOLA.
Alabama, Oct, 4th, 1634.
improve the land on which it is growing, fas-
ter than the Gama Grass, although it has a
most powerful root, but the bunches are in
proportion to the roots, branching numerously
anil spreudin^wide. Mr. Phillips, is ofopift-
ton it can be cut monthly as long as the sea
son would allow—he made three cuttings the
lust summer, and he does not think the bun.
ches lost a half pound each, the second cut.
tiag ; and he was certain there was not two
pounds difference in the bunches between the
first and third cutting. He weighed several
bunches which averaged from twenty to thirty
pounds each ; and he lias no doubt there were
severul*of the largest, bunches he let stand for
seed, which Would weigh thirty pounds each ;
in fact he Bad never seen .such production in
his life. But let us make the calculation even
fifteen pounds to the bundle or bill, and ul.
low a loss of half for curing, which will leave
seven pounds of cured hay—allowing then
fifteen hundred hiilsHo the sere, (which is not
enough by fifty five hills, and you will pro
cure ten thousand five hundred pounds of good
buy from one acre atone cutting, and it yoir'
make threejeuttings and allow fifteen hundred
pounds for losing, you have the nett amount
of thirty thousand pounds of good hay from
one acre of ground iu one year—gray land will
always suit it bust, and I believe it will make
but little difference whether it tie planted on
hill sides, level, or. tow grounds, so jhat it is
not red aud stiff or tod wet; and if the laud
is poor,, it will soon moke it rich.
Mr. Phillips has four other kinds of
grass besides the Gama ; the Feather Top
or Velvet Grass, the Crow Foot, which he
considers a superior grazing grass, the Red
Top, which he values next to the Gama for hay,
and the Blue Grass. He was kind enough to
give me a half pint of the Gama Grass seed,
a few of which 1 will give'to any gentleman
Who wishes to make a trial of it.
Respectfully, yours, *&c.
EDWARD DELONY.
fallotlon, Ga., Jan. 15th, 1835.
rsBssa
Gama Grass.—A writer iu the Columbus
(Ga.) Sfeotincft gives the following account
of this valuable grass :
“ In some of tho last numbers of your
valuable paper, an inquiry was made aa to
tire success of the culture of Gama Grass—
and a request thtU those who had tried it
would give ..the result of their experience
and opinions. . So far as my own extends
1 can say but liltla, not having given it
a 'fair trial—being deficient both in quautity
and time. I procured last winter a few seed
from Dr. Bartlett, the former able conductor
mixed, or rather tire cotton seed stacked -in -a 1 of the Southern Planter, aud planted them in
pen. fresh from the gin, with the ashes leach- a rich bottom soil: only about half a dozen
ed, the cotton seed to be wet as each layer in 1 seeds came up, owing, 1 presume, to my plan
laid, on*‘about 6 inches, -With 2 of ashes; and I them too deep, .together with the wet .spring,
continued until-the pile is completed, and lay. I which Caused them to rot, and many of the
ing at rest for about one month, has a singular I seed Being, no doubt, .without substance in
effect in producing a vigorous growth * of the | them, as I have since learned that only those
Gama, when used, as a top dressing in the
spring—also ashes and <Plaster of Paris.
*•-. AGRICOLA.
From the Farmer and Gardener.
Gama-Grass—xodb of cultivation.—
Among n number of experiments made, and
* Wo subjoin tho communication for the convex
nicnco of the reader.
seed which are dark colored will come up, the
light or straw colored being entirely without
germinatiug substance. Those which did
come up, grew off well and flourished finely—
some of the bunches having from seventy to a
hundred branches growing up as tall as my
knee. I did not cut it and the coid .winter
making, by myself and through tbs aid of 1 has only killed tho blades a little more than
kind friends, disposed-to second ray intentions, [ halfway—there wore no stalks, as it does not
for the purpose of .ascertaining ihe mode of! seed the first year—the blade is from hall'an
cultivating.the Gamat-Ghass, .best.calculated inch to three quarters wide,
to-bring that plant to the highest perfection, 11 As I can say hut little with regard to my
have now-sufficiently ascertained the result of } own experience in the cultivation of this ira-
the following, to lee! justified in giving -it to portant grass, I have it in ray power, and au-
those wiio-are cultivating that grass. j thority to communicate'the experience and
In the spring ef 1830, Implanted out a seed opinions of a gentleman who has made a very
bed^ drilling in rows 19. inches wide, 12 from ] fair trial with the article, and he gives it all the
plant to plant—they came up and grew off praise that hus heretofore been bestowed on it.
well. Early the following.spring, 1 took tip r On my return home from Morgan county,
the plants, divided them, and set out, prepar- in December last, I called at Mr. Elijah
ing the ground previously -as follows: The Phillips’ of Monroe county, whose standing
soil a. gray sandy soil,-on a red,* loamy loose is well known to* the community around him
clay—The top soil six to nine inches, dark and no doubt to yourselves, as a most cxccl-
grey, and sometimes inclining to black—The lent and experienced farmer. On the farm of
land had been-two years in corn ahd peas, this gentleman I fouodnn abundance of Gama
and was well-set with crab grass^-had made Gross in cultivation. By reqpest Mr. PhiL
only three crops— -The last year the pea vines, lips readily* gave me his opinion of it; which
and grass, were permitted to rest entirely on I noted down at the time. He does not hes-
the soil—-About the first of October, tho land J itate in saying it is a most superior article,
get a good dressing of compost manure, stable and decidedly, preferable to any other grass
dung, and cow pen- with swamp mu#. 'The which he has ever keen, remarkably prodiic-
cattle had been well littered with - oak-leaves, Live and very nutritious; his horses and cattle
and rye^trawi and the manure was literally are extremely fond of ft.; indeed, preferring
Tong manure,"in making which, not a particle it to foddcT, which contains much less nou?- , j~ - - - -. . ~
of thc'liquor or urine, -was suffered to be lost. I ishment than the grab's ; ft cures readily and- i l ° have overlooked iftat salutary provision of
This manuring was-ploughed under in iraitn- retains a sweet odour. It will grow in any outlaw which guarantees to the accused* in all
lion of trench ptoughing-^-tme plough* (bar | soil wet or dry, but the most luxuriant which
shear,)-following another of the same but Ihe had-in cultivation ibis-year, is about an
smaller—which effectually turned grass and acre on the bluff of the river-—it flourishes ex
pea vines under at least fifteen inches—oh treraely well on hills and marshy grounds,
the top, rye was harrowed in, going with the particularly ‘in what is called Crawfish low
furrow—previous to sowing the rye, the land grounds, drained well.
.was dressed* with rotten limestone, a species 1 He prefers planting ft in hills of the dis
til a t abounds in this .section of country, and I tan.ee of two feet each way—the hHl to be
which- had become pulverized by the prece- made large, broad and light, after which it
din*Lwinter's frost and rain...... ■j requires but little or no cultivation ; one [or
The/ye came up, and grew oflftwell—un-1 two handfuls of cotton seed deposited in the
commonly rank, and furnished a fine mass of hill and mixed with tho soil, he found to pro
fond for calves and hogs, until the last of Feb- duce a fine effect. A branch of the grass
ruary, when all were taken off. By tfte first ] should be, set in the centre of the hill, or one
of April it.was rank again. On the 2d., an- or two good seed, and those only of a dark
other top dressing of the compost, but in a state color are good and sound—when tlie plant
of more perfect decay, was applied, and well comes up (which you will know from its re
turned under with a small Frcebprn plough— semblance to young wheat just.out of the
harrowed with tj,ie furrow—Tho ground was i ground,) you have little more to do—keep the
•now carefully laid off ip drills, at two feet, and 1 grass and weeds from growing toolarge around
the plants placed in4hem at the same distance, it, and give it one or two light ploughlngs du
ring the year.
From the Georgia Courier.
Mr. Editor—We seem to live in an age
when malice, envy, and all he base and self,
ish passions of our nature are brought into
requisition, and attempted to be lauded,‘tinder
the- garb oft patriotism or devotion' to princi-
pics': find those who look only to the expres-
sion and show of sincerity may have credulity
enough to believe them honest J blit those
who, from On acquaintance with the selfish
principles of human nature; and' that disposi-
tioii (predominant iu many) to build up some
praise for themselves on the ruin of others,
will scan every motive, and trace the act, if
possible, to its secret and original design be-
fere they will form an opinion. To those of
the latter it must be perceptible, that the. char
ges wbich have made their appearance in ihe
form of certificates, in the Sentinel of the 2Sth
inst., over the signatures of 'Lemle, Gamble,
Holt, GobeH, and Harman vs. the Hon. Wm.
Schley, are obnoxious to this construction.—
Mr. Lemle, it appears, is the accuser on that
occasion, and, evidently, the automaton of longer
heads ; and of whom it would be au imputa-
lion for' a man to assert, in defence of hunself
any thing opposed to v his enlarged conceptions
of private 'political teuets; for, it seems, he
and 4118 conceptions must be the expounders
of the political creed of an individual almost
befere he had a being. With extraordinary
tenacity' of feeling, and unwearied exertion
combined, he has sought certificates from eve
ry quarter to prove' that he had conceived
aright of the political character of a man as
far back as 25 years ago. He is surely the
man who is to uuitO former ages with' posterity;
and I wonder he contents himself with events s.o
recent, when he might go to the republican age
of Greece for a contrast with the present
age. I cannot conceive what the illumina.
non of a house jn a country village, has tQ do
with the politics of the present day, or with
tbu political principles of any man. Surely
you and your coadjutors are wanting in char
ges, against the consistency of a man who
has been before the people for office for the
last seven or eight years, to be compelled to
go back 25 years for a grave charge, that a
house, not his own, should not be illuminated
on some occasion, when there is no evidence
whether he was in town or nof. Nor is even
the occasion mentioned so as to admit [of ex
planation or defence. In your eagerness fer
c'onderfmation, you and your coadjutors seem
language of him who said *• Lord deliver mo
from my friends—from my, enemies I can bo
guarded.” Truth, Mr. H., needs no aid from
a warning against the probability of an attack
which-may prejudice her ; and you seem U»
have mistaken her peculiar attribute, which
is fearlessness : fer ybu state, in tho conclu-
ston of your phillipic, that your motives may
be attributed to political.Jdppositioo- The
whispers of conscience surely betrayed you
before your policy was aware of wbat yon
hud done.
You say you are not a volunteer/ and call
upon^ your fellow-citizuus to bear'witness of
the fact; and, in the next sentence, yo.u say
that “ my testimony has been, given because
it was duo.to the people of Georgia, and be
cause it was necessary to sustuiu the pecsou-
al reputation of friends who have asserted,part,
ly on my authority, that Judge Wm. Schley
was u federalist.oi the Hamiltouian school.”
Are j-ou sure that you are not equally correct
iu tiie idregomg part of your statement us in
this. There seems to he a struggle between
you and Mr. Lurole os to who is entitled to
the honor ot making the charge. You say
it was partly upou your authority, and he says
that it is necessary for him to prove hjs state
ments correct or submit to the imputation of
ialsitying his character.; and you seem ty
have mivdo a compromise and both appear
simultaneously in the same paper. It is. for-
tunate for the present age, also, that such
valuable histoncul information, which you
have given of the parties during the war, should
bb preserved, as uo doubt it would, but fe r y<>P r
recollection, have been lost in tire lupscofitime.
Your perseverance, Mr. H., and your coad r
jutor’s, seems to be coextcusive with your mah
ice. For tho. last tour years, os often os
Judge Schley has beeu before .the people fer
office, so often have these same charges beeu
rung with many changes, and no doubt jpartty
upon your authority ; and now, as if unproved
by lime, they .are again issued, and as if they
had not a show of truth as statements or as
sertions, they are now saddled with certifi
cates, with all the show of anguish at tho
struggle of duty, patriotism, and friendship,
i would ask by what forced analogy and con
struction the moments of convivial mirth and
the expression of a single individual, (perhaps
excited by liquor,) in passing a house, is made
to signify, and fix upon an individual, tfio
charge of federalism ? For I have -under;
stood, the man whom you aud your ooadju.
tors allude to, as having culled for the march,
was Dred Moor, of whom the inhabitants of
Louisville, as well as your coadjutors can tes
tify scarcely ever drew a sober breath.- - You
must try again, >lr. Lemle, for, as you con-
less from your charges, unless you proved
what ybu had asserted, that you would bo
“ submitting to the imputation of falsifying his
cfiaractei*.” You' assert that his opposition to
the walr was so mauifest that he refused to il-
I u nun ate his house upou the celebration of
some victory. Now, look at the certificates
of your coadjutors and see tf they bear you
out in this notorious assertion. You say, in
tlie statement which you volunteer, and which
was ref used ydu by way of certificate, that up£
on the organization of the militia of Jdjfer-
son county, fer the purpose of marching to
Savannah, to which place thfey had been or
dered, Judge Schley was then in the ranljsV
this is one evidence of opposition. Col Gam
ble states that Judge Scley, after the war had
been declared Ify the constituted authority,
declared that tbe government should not bp
obstructed in its operations, but, on the coni
trary, it should have the aid of all citizens to
support it to an honorable tertninatign. This
is another evidence. Is it probable that fufigo
Schley should have refused to illuminate on tho
occasion alluded to, when Col. Gamble stated
that he had heard, and believes, he .did .illu
minate on former occasions ; and. even Mr.
Uaroiau states that whenever a naval victory
was announced, he (Judge Schley) wasjoucf
and boisterous in rejoicing, cannons must bo
fire, houses illuminated, &c. dec., and t^it
be'should march as a soldier in the militia*,
(when he could have hired a substitute',) iu de
fence of his couutry; and after all this, hji
should be so opposed to tho war, From princi
ple, as not to illuminate? This is absurd ;
you may as well tell me' a man after toiling.
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criminal charges, the right of having the time
and circumstances stated with precision. Your
excuse for becoming tbe accuser is not a good
one, Mr. Lemle; for the contest was .ope of
your own seeding, and you cannot complain,
or justify yourself, that you were forced to-do
what you have done. 'Yon- become an accu
ser, anff justify yourself for having become
-so, because a charge was denied. This will
do to serve for gardgantua, but not for an en-
ligt^iened people. Let us jjlw in a spirit ol
candor/pursue the several grave charges, con:
tained in your certificates, which it was so
important the country should Jie in possession
of, and which required the sacrifice Of so much
feeling and - friendship of by-gone years to di-
vulge. I really, for Mr. Harman, experience
spine throes of agony, at the struggle between
his friendship and patriotism ; but tbe sequel
of his piece proves that his feelings were
a mere play of words which flittered on the
lip, but never came from the heart: If he
ig me year. * r« — ; -.*■ ‘
-He has never seen anfarticle of cultivation | ^ro sincere, the Judge might exclaim, m the
for his bread refuses, to eat ft. Your coadju
tors do not inform us eveu that Judge Schley-
was hi Louisville on the night alluded to,
which at least ought to he a link in the chafri
of yoyr presumptive evidence. For, if lie
lrotn home on an occasion of rejoicing, ho
should not be condemned because he was npt
present. If Judge Schley is to be coude.mij-
ed for omitting to rejoice on one occasion,
then with the same [rule may your coadjutors,
and several other inhabitants of LouievUIe, b ; a
obnoxious to the same charge ; for upon thift
repulsion of the British at Baltimore, (which,
was not a naval battle,) which was attacked
after they had burned the Capitol, of Wash
ington/ the news reached Louisville about.
9 o’clock at night, through some member of the
bar, who came to'the court, and Judge Schley,
and one of. his brothers, having heard ft .fifot v
went immediately and bought some po\vdW,
and got but a few citizens and the (J. S. troops,^ ■
aud fired cannon in such quick succession asi •
to alarm the town, and. mauy citizens then*
for the first time, heard the news. This cijv* •
cumstance is particularly recollected from tho-
circumstuucc of one ot' the soldiers having
gotten,his leg broke in returning the camion,
and having been nursed by his brother’s fam
ily, in'consequence of he aiid his brother hav- .
ing been the cause of bringing him out with
the cannon. If this affair was looked upon
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